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6/9/17 <br />To Whom It May Concern: <br />I am writing this letter on behalf of my husband and myself, Ray and Courtney Wegner. We are <br />residents at 271 Carroll Rd, almost on the corner of Carroll and Badger Pocket, and I am writing <br />I response to the posting in the newspaper of an application to "expand the current permitted <br />mining operation" at the Clerf Mine. <br />My husband and love our house and location with one exception; the rock truck traffic that has <br />drastically increased since we moved here in 2000. We live at the bottom of a steep hill and the <br />trucks constantly use their exhaust brake from the top of the hill to the stop sign that we live <br />near. I have no vocabulary to describe how loud and obnoxious this constant use of exhaust <br />brakes is, except to say it is horrendous!! I have called the companies at fault to many times to <br />count. It will stop or slow fora little while and then it is right back. I have asked them if they <br />can ask their drivers to be more contentious, but nothing changes. This is not happening from <br />8am to 5pm Monday through Friday, but beginning as early as 6:00 am on a regular basis and <br />not stopping until well after 5:00. A few days ago, a double tanker truck went by after 7pm. We <br />live in the country and love peace and quiet and this is far from it! <br />The other issue with the trucks is that our road is no longer safe for activities that we, and our <br />neighbors enjoy. My husband and I routinely like to walk for exercise, a few others like to ride <br />bikes and we all like to ride horses, however these activities are no longer possible due to the <br />increased truck traffic. Combine all this traffic with a steep, blind hill, and Carroll Rd. has <br />become a very dangerous road. 1 am not sure Carroll Rd. is up to current safety standards as it <br />is, let alone the amount of semi -truck traffic it is getting now. Carroll is a narrow, country road <br />and it is scary to meet one of these behemoths flying at you! Often, there are oversized loads <br />that take up the entire road. <br />Another concern has become the integrity of the road surface itself. Again, Carroll was never <br />intended for this type of semi traffic and it is starting to break down, even though the chip seal <br />was only applied a few years ago. I wonder is there extra taxation of the rock truck companies <br />to pay for extra maintenance? The county public works department says there is not extra <br />money to fix our road as it begins to break down much faster than was intended. <br />Unfortunately, rock trucks are not the only semi -trucks on our road; we also have to deal with <br />sileage trucks and hay trucks, it's just the rock trucks that are the biggest culprit. <br />I have been keeping a sort of, unofficial, log of each time a truck goes by (see attached). I <br />started it before I knew of the application. Since I found out about the application I have been <br />much more dedicated, but please keep in mind while reading it that there are manytimes I am <br />not home so there is no recording done during those times. After looking at the numbers, I <br />